Blog: Responsible Buying

Between a rock and a hard place

Posted on March 2nd, 2009 by Kurt in Bottled Water, Plastic Bags, Rants, Responsible Buying, Sustainability

So it’s been 2 months since I’ve returned from an almost 3 year experience in Pakistan and India. So much has changed for me, that even still I find re-adapting to the Canadian culture difficult.

I suppose some of the experiences I had will never leave me, some truths you cannot just sweep under a carpet. Now that I am back in Canada, the hardest part is trying to share those experiences I had in a way that help people understand these truths that I have seen: poverty, exploitation, corruption, dishonesty. I guess this feeling is shared by anyone in the field of sustainability. The question eludes me, while I find myself stuck between a rock and a hard place. The worst of all, for me, is falling on deaf ears to the ones that are supposed to be closest and most beloved to us: our family.

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Confessions of a Consumption-holic

Posted on February 25th, 2009 by Diana in Responsible Buying

Despite the media attention, reading the books and the articles, learning about it in school and having a best friend who is truly an environmentalist at heart, I am guilty of being a consumption-holic.  I am conscious of the fact that a) I already have a lot of stuff and b) I don’t need anything else but I still find myself buying a lot of items that I justify with these reasons:

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Imagine voting everyday

Posted on February 6th, 2009 by Derek McBurneysadsa in Rants, Responsible Buying

Imagine voting everyday.  Terrible thought isn't it?  Well I hate to break it to you, but that is exactly what we are doing, except for maybe those lazy Sundays where even rolling out of bed seems like an insurmountable challenge.  But before I start thinking about the weekend, I have to finish this article as it's something I've discussed a bunch lately but never put the pen to the page on, er, keyboard to the (web)page.  We vote every single day.  It's like a federal election every 24 hours, except with higher turnout.  Allow me to explain...

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